Viggo Mortensen quotes - page 5

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. (Viggo Mortensen)
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
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I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different. (Viggo Mortensen)
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people. (Viggo Mortensen)
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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